Mullah Rahman

Mullah Abdul Rahman was a Taliban financier who was a Mujahideen leader during the Soviet-Afghan War.

Biography
During the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s, Rahman commanded a Mujahideen army on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and in the Battle of Khost his Afghan jihadists drove off a ferocious attack by the Soviet Union's Red Army in September 1986. In the aftermath of the war he sided with the Taliban that took power in 1996 during the civil wars with the Northern Alliance. During the Afghanistan War, Rahman was involved in heightening insecurity in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces. He encouraged insurgents to plant roadside bombs and stage high-profile attacks on Afghan officials. On 23 October 2012, he was captured by a joint NATO-German operation.